Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick compared Alabama and Arizona immigration policies to McCarthyism and Jim Crow in a speech Monday to students at Tufts University, according to a story on Boston.com.

The actions of various states to take matters into their own hands have been ham-fisted, self-defeating, and even racist, Patrick was quoted as saying.

The tone of Patricks speech Monday - he called much of the debate surrounding immigration reform hysterical and poisonous - has struck some state lawmakers and immigration policy specialists as more vehement than previous speeches, the story said.

The public discourse about immigration is as toxic today as McCarthyism or Jim Crow were in their time, Patrick was quoted as saying. Now, like then, the debate seems to be based more on emotion than reason, more on slogan than fact.

Eva A. Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, told Boston.com that she was not surprised by the content of Patricks speech - she has always agreed with his stance on immigration - but was struck by its particularly brash tone.

Its very strong wording that really speaks to [Governor Patricks] belief, to his understanding, to his vision for a stronger America, Millona said.

On the other hand, Jessica Vaughan - director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that researches US immigration policy - said the governors fiery words Monday were a political mistake.

The language he chooses is just as loaded and charged as the rhetoric of the people that hes criticizing - maybe even more so, Vaughan was quoted as saying. I dont think he could get away with giving that speech anywhere other than a college campus.

Bet you thought this was about Willard, huh? Might as well have been IMO. These Massachusetts Governors, past and present, are horrified that the citizens of any State would take measures to both protect themselves from threats the Feds deem unworthy of their attention, and vote for laws and amendments which contradict with the "enlightened" Masshole agenda.

“Bet you thought this was about Willard, huh? Might as well have been IMO. These Massachusetts Governors, past and present, are horrified that the citizens of any State would take measures to both protect themselves from threats the Feds deem unworthy of their attention, and vote for laws and amendments which contradict with the “enlightened” Masshole agenda.”
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I fully agree

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posted on 05/11/2012 7:56:29 AM PDT
by mongo141
(Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)

The impoverished immigrants come in and work for very low wages, displacing blacks who are willing to work for low wages. So we get a twofer - illegal problems and a huge black unemployment rate! Nice work, Deval!

What the hell is the matter with people from Massachusetts? What makes their brains work like this? I don’t get out of Alabama much so I don’t understand this attitude. Is there a defect somewhere in their gene pool that makes them vote for libs?

Meanwhile, Obama’s uncle Omar Obama, illegal alien, gets his license back today. Because denying him a licesnse would be cruel, he needs to be able to drive drunk legally (even though he can’t stand outside his car anywhere legally).

Oh, and Obama’s aunt, illegal alien, is still living on the people’s dime in South Boston.

The real WOLF here is the GOP-e attempting to permanently marginalize Conservatives and the dems more than happy to help. Patrick is a product of the Chicago politimob. Everything he does is orchestrated and calculated. He has praised RomneyCare effusively. The same guy who says that, says this. Do you see what's going on here?

When really it’s a rabble of people who have been taught by bleeding heart white LIBERALS that it’s never a good thing to control their emotions and try to do something rational instead of just party and rage.

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posted on 05/11/2012 8:30:26 AM PDT
by HiTech RedNeck
(Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)

Yes. The GOP briefly flirted with segregationalists in the South during the civil rights era, and although it quickly rejected them afterwards, this is the reason that black politics gives for not embracing the GOP. Forget every doggone thing that happened, or at least was tried, by the GOP from Abraham Lincoln till now... oh, no!

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posted on 05/11/2012 8:33:18 AM PDT
by HiTech RedNeck
(Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)

Probably, but don't forget that Senate confirmation is required in order to put a nominee on the bench. However, I don't remember for sure if a simple majority suffices to confirm a USSC nominee or if it requires a 2/3 majority. If it's the latter there should be enough Pubs in the Senate for the next 4 years to prevent such an embarrassment to the Court and to the nation from becoming reality.

OTOH, GOP Senators voted to confirm some of the most liberal Justices of the 20th century, so pray that Scalia and Thomas will enjoy good health for another 5 years just in case our worst nightmare becomes reality and Obama deceives the voters one more time.

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posted on 05/11/2012 9:03:40 AM PDT
by epow
( "It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." Patrick Henry)

As much as you might dislike Romney there is no comparison between him and Deval. The current governor of MA is an Obama clone. Maybe worse. I think Obama may even be smarter than Deval - if that is possible.

First of all, he grossly misrepresents opposition to illegal immigration. He conflates legal and ILLEGAL immigration so that those who are opposed to ILLEGAL immigration are opposed to all immigration which is not and has never been the case. The news media, leftist organizations and the democratic party all do this knowingly, willingly and with malice.

How in God’s Holy Name is it wrong to be against ILLEGAL immigration? What country in this world is that an issue beside ours? Every country defends it borders from illegal crossings and non-residents coming in without a check for credentials! Many countries allow no immigration at all.

Why are Americans who want the borders secure and illegal crossings stopped racists?

The answer, orf course, is that they are not. Not racist, not hysterical, not poisonous. Not McCarthyism nor Jim Crow. Just people who want the law followed and applied equally across our Republic.

Maybe, just maybe, it is Deval Patrick who is hysterical and poisonous?

Deval Patrick is a serious diversity racist. He headed up Clinton’s Division of Civil Rights and at that time, was systematically installing discrimination orders against white males. Ward Connerly, our hero!, was fighting in courts and with state ballot initatives to establish that white males have equal rihgts to the Left’s preferred majority, minorities and women.

Deval came to Boston for a rally of “women and minorities.” He assured the perferred ones that white men don’t have a chance, because the preferred majority can just vote against them. Deval was unbelievably blunt in his determination to deny white males equal rights to ‘women and minorities.”

Thankfully, white women began to realize that systematic discrimination and oppression of the men in their families was not really to their advantage as mothers, wives, neices and sisters. Ward Connerly was successful in his effort to shore up the constitution on behalf of white males.

We never hear about Ward Connerly. But white males should never forget what he did for them. As a Black man loyal to constitutional freedom, he took a lot of hate from the left for standing up against them to derail their effort to systematically install legal and institutional orders of “non-discrimination” that were targeted at isolating and harming white males by racists like Deval.

Were I Phil Bryant Governor of the great state of Mississippi, I would publicly tell the Massachusetts Governor that the People of Mississippi & state of Mississippi believes in Law & Order regardless of the race or origins of the individuals choosing to break the laws.

If you break the law in Mississippi you will be hunted down and caught regardless of your race.

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